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“Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands”: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life of Federal Service, and His Fears and Hopes for the Future

Mad in America

That early childhood trauma is what I believe led to my own mental health and addiction issues. Around the time that SAMHSA was established , in 1993, they used to do an annual conference for the Community Support Program, and there was a track for peers and families. Folks weren’t happy about that.